6 Crazy Moments From Last Night's Mad Men

Really, though—this season's drama has been mostly grounded in mergers, Megan's career, and a Don affair that (outside of some captor-play) was pretty tame by his standards. Then, last night, BAM. We get:

1) The return of ice-queen Betty Betty is officially Not Fat Anymore, and her confidence/cold-hearted control has returned. Or rather, it's almost returned—she just needs all men she encounters to continuously reaffirm that she looks smokin.'

2) Don being silly What's crazy about this, you ask? Try and remember a time when Don let loose/genuinely laughed without the aid of alcohol or drugs/sang. When Bobby asked him to pump his arm in the air for the camp song, I felt TV proposal/death/major reveal levels of on the edge of my seat.

3) Don and Betty! OMG, what an unexpected midseason treat. This is hookup #2 of the season that falls under the category of "We didn't know we wanted it, then suddenly we were rooting like crazy for it."

4) Megan's awkward encounter Poor Megan. She seriously cannot win. Her mother's a harlot, Don's a distant bot (who, I have decided following that dinner scene of theirs, suddenly seems more like her father than her husband), and all her work BFF really wants is to get in her baby-blue pants.

5) Joan and Bob Benson Wait, are we all going to pretend like Joan and Bob are just this thing everyone's been used to for a while? The show just cut to them all casual like, acknowledging neither that this is a mind-boggler of a couple nor that Bob's shorts are so. Short. So short. Roger would never!

6) PEGGY AND ABE—WTF! Holy crap. Peggy's homemade harpoon got Abe right in the stomach! Even if we never meet Peggy's circle of friends from later in her life, I think we can safely assume none of them will ever have a breakup story that tops hers. She'll be telling that one over bridge in the nursing home decades from now.

What did you think of last night's episode?

Photo: AMC

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Megan AngeloEntertainment writer. I love talking about TV so much, you'll eventually back slowly away from me at a party.